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...Huang's bosses in the provincial capital created their own team to investigate his allegations. But the implicit tension between growth and fighting graft was visible when the team was told to "strike a balance between the struggle against corruption and economic development," according to documents released by the city to rebut Huang's essay. In the event, the committee ruled that the case was an "economic dispute" rather than corruption and that construction should continue. After lobbying against the ruling for two years, Huang contacted the People's Daily website, which posted his essay after dispatching reporters to interview...
...Mazza’s most recent trip to pay dirt—a 61-yard strike that gave Harvard a 21-7 lead—the five yards between him and the nearest defender mattered more than that cover man’s height...
...closing a call center and moving around 1,000 jobs to India. The announcement sparked a furor; Newcastle City Council had given Lloyds subsidies to set up the call center two years previously. UNIFI, the union representing about 15,000 of Lloyds' 70,000 staff, called for a strike ballot, and after several months of negotiations, the bank agreed to redeploy people in other jobs where possible. Those laid off when the call center closes next month will get a $3,600 payment toward retraining. It's a model that the union would like to extend across financial service firms...
...strike this equilibrium, Greenblatt says that he relied heavily on literary studies, his knowledge of cultural history and his own intuition to reconstruct the likely day-to-day events of Shakespeare’s life...
Then there was the 1994 team. That’s what most American baseball fans talk about, if they ever mention the Expos. Too bad they had the best record in baseball, but the strike put an end to their season. Too bad they couldn’t afford to keep Ken Hill, or John Wetteland, or Larry Walker, or Marquis Grissom, who all made the playoffs the following year with their new teams. A “what if,” at best...